Hi guys,
When I put a picture as the today's wallpaper, the picture is lighter than normal.
Is there anyway to fix it and get the real picture colors ?
Thx
yep, use eg. resco picture viewer or resize your pictures to 240x320 and 320x240, rename them to tdywater_240_320.gif and tdywater_320_240.gif and copy/ overwrite in \windows. soft reset and you are done!
ps. it is needed to have it saved as a .gif!
Or just keep it simple!
Open the picture in the default "pictures & videos", and choose "Set as Today Background". Then it will ask you how much white you wanna have.
preview said:
Hi guys,
When I put a picture as the today's wallpaper, the picture is lighter than normal.
Is there anyway to fix it and get the real picture colors ?
Thx
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If you set the image under settings/today, thats what you will get. For some reason it uses a transparency value (nowhere to change this here).
The best and easiest solution I have found, is to open the Camera, and view the Album. Browse to the image you want, click it and keep it pressed so that the context menu comes up, select "Set as Today Background...". This will show you the image, and allow you to set the transparency level. Set it to zero, and the image in the Today Background will look exactly as it should.
Works with the Album->Set Picture as Background
Thx guys !
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*Fixed/Figured it out*
The htc png images no longer show up under start, settings, today screen(even when I select all folders, or my pictures). It also doesn't work when I tap and hold on the .png files themselves, as "set as today background" is no longer an option for png files. I'm baffled, and kinda pissed. I hate when this stuff happens. I set each of the htc images as backgrounds when I first flashed to see which I liked best, so I know it's possible, but now when I tried to set a file as my background it no longer works.
Also, is there anyway to disable the automatic transparency of files. I have the perfect background, and when I set it it ends up washed out and looks crappy. Thank you in advance, I appreciate the help.
Dustin
Hello me, it's me again.
Hey myself,
This will address both of your issues. Kinda stupid that you can't change the today background to a png image the way you noted above... windows(sheesh!).
In order to adjust transparency, and set png files as your background you have to go to start, programs, pictures and video's, then tap and hold on the image to "set as today background". after that you will have the option to adjust the transparency.
Take care of yourself Dustin,
Dustin
PS Here's the background I created that lead me through this problem:
Anytime I try to select my own wallpaper on my phone it applies correctly but its appears washed out. As long as I used the default wallpaper for the theme I have selected its fine.
I've attached a couple screen shots to show you what I mean.
Anyone know how to fix this?
The first is the original jpg for the wallpaper.
open pictures and video then open the picture then go to menu and click save as today screen (image?) change opaticty to 0% then click ok
That did it! Thanks a bunch!
Dear Xda Community,
i recently swichted from Hermes to Kaiser and I have one issue with my wallpaper. Its some kind of semi transparent and I dont know where I can change the setting to be not transparent ?
Greetings
fire
go in file explorer and open the file you want to use as your wallpaper
then go to options and click "set this as today wallpaper"
then on the next screen, click on the transparency % and reduce it to 0%
hope this helps
I had this same issue... But even after setting it to 0% transparency, it still looks goofy. The color still seems lighter, and it's very grainy. I made the image on my desktop and cropped it to 320x240. I can't figure out why it looks so bad. Any ideas?
Post it and let someone else try it.
I think my problem has to do with the image size. If I look at the image in the picture viewer, it looks great blown up to fit the screen. but it's also a different size.
When I set it as my today screen, I think it's squeezing it to fit between my task bar at the top and the menu bar at the bottom. So if I create a new image that is the right proportions for that area, would it look better? What is that area?
I'll try to get a screen shot up here in a bit.
Here's a side by side screen shot via myMobiler.
On the left is my today screen, on the right is the same image displayed in the image viewer. These are very good representations of the difference on the actual phone too. You can see what it is I don't like the best if you look at the gradient from the orange to yellow around her knees.
Is my problem just the format I used for the image? I just noticed I saved it originally as a .gif. probably would work better as a .jpg or bmp I assume
well, ok, so it doesn't show as much after I had to lower the quality to get it to upload... site contstrints made me drop the jpg quality down.
Yup, saved it as a .BMP and set it as the wallpaper. Looks way better now.
why i change my background image..the image color will become pale~~
can anyone fix it because i saw my friend omnia wont have this problem
Set transparency to 0% in "pictures and videos" when setting background image....
Good luck!
excuse me, where can i find the setting of it? inside which particular files?
Dont use the 'Today' settinsg to set the image as a background as that doesn't let you change the transparency - easy mistake to make!
Use File Explorer to find the image file you want to use / or the picture viewer (Pictures & Videos), then click to open the picture.
When viewing the picture in the picture viewer go to Menu->Set as Today Background.
When you click that you get a dialog that lets you set the transparency.
Hope this helps.
-FM
or instead of going to the menu for a speedy set, click and hold on the image then select set as background, set transparency to 0%
Hi,
I've been playing around transferring files onto my phone, but I just can't get my lock screen to look right.
1. Does anyone know what the exact dimensions of the lockscreen image should be? I read 320x480 somewhere, but this isn't correct. I've also tried 360x380, 340x480. Maybe it's 345x480? I want to get this right because...
2. Whenever I set an image onto the lock screen, the phone seems to compress the image really badly and I see loads of jpg artifacts on the parts that should be solid colour. I'm hoping that if the image is the right size, it won't convert/re-sample/re-compress the file.
Any ideas?
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1. Does anyone know what the exact dimensions of the lockscreen image should be?
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The stock ones are 320 x 455, and I've had good results using those dimensions for my own images.
Im sure i read that converting your image to a png and using that instead of the png file gave better results also. Not 100% on that though lol
.png gives better quality than jpg.
320x455 px is the right size. But everytime you set wallpaper, HTC software it re-compress as JPEG in tragical quality. PNG or JPEG, that makes no difference.
Will be nice software like Wallpaper Set & Save for lock screen wallpaper. But I can't find something like that.
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320x455 px is the right size. But everytime you set wallpaper, HTC software it re-compress as JPEG in tragical quality.
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Not my experience. My own images are usually desktop 'papers resized and/or cropped to 320x455 and saved as JPEGs, and provided I ensure the green 'crop box' is expanded to encompass the entire image when selecting the lockscreen they look just as good as the originals.
I've tried many images. At most (as you) cropped or resized desktop wallpapers. I prepare the correct size and copy to phone. I keep JPEG at 90 to 100% of quality and also convert it to PNG. And every image was resampled during setting up as lock screen wallpaper. Everytime its quality goes rapidly down. Even I used exactly the same way like you.
It is not good visible on landscape wallpapers with. But on artifical images it's very big problem. It blurs every contrast line on image.
Try it on this image: http://anowia.deviantart.com/art/Light-Blaze-HD-Wallpaper-129153930 If you don't notice any resample after setting up as lock screen wallpaper, please provide screenshot.
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Try it on this image: http://anowia.deviantart.com/art/Light-Blaze-HD-Wallpaper-129153930 If you don't notice any resample after setting up as lock screen wallpaper, please provide screenshot.
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Here you go.... see what you think. View attachment lockscreen.zip
Not perfect, but it was a rush job. Resized from 1280x1024 to ???x455, then cropped to 320x455. Saved as JPEG @ 100% for use. Photoshop Elements 7 used. If I had more time I'd probably play with the sharpening to compensate for the downsizing.
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I've tried many images. At most (as you) cropped or resized desktop wallpapers. I prepare the correct size and copy to phone. I keep JPEG at 90 to 100% of quality and also convert it to PNG. And every image was resampled during setting up as lock screen wallpaper. Everytime its quality goes rapidly down. Even I used exactly the same way like you.
It is not good visible on landscape wallpapers with. But on artifical images it's very big problem. It blurs every contrast line on image.
Try it on this image: http://anowia.deviantart.com/art/Light-Blaze-HD-Wallpaper-129153930 If you don't notice any resample after setting up as lock screen wallpaper, please provide screenshot.
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Also having this issue with this image..
I have problems with all images. But on this it's good visible. And as Shluggity's screenshots shows, it's not only my problem. I think it's not good
I'm not sure what's going on but there's definitely some sort of degradation visible, a softening of the edges. I honestly haven't seen it in my own wallpapers, but I haven't used images like this with lots of thin sharp 'light beam' effects. Maybe original image res is a factor, maybe screen dpi, maybe something completely different... If I have time tomorrow I'll do some tests.
how does wallpaper set and save work? maybe the wallpaper directory is similar to the lockscreen directory?
Have you tried HeroLockWall? (Market)
lockscreen wallpaper help..
i have the same problem i cant get lockscreen wallpaper to work every time i try i get a tile wallpaper and not a stretch wallpaper that i want can sum body help me plz??